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This article is in Russian
Excavations of the Ekaterinovsky Cape ground cemetery in 2013—2018 studied 101 burials on the area of 318 sq. m. The obtained materials find analogies in the steppe burial grounds of Eastern Europe of the Mariupol circle, the Khvalynsk culture and the burial grounds of the Nizhnekamsk region. On the basis of archaeological finds, it is possible to reconstruct the burial costume of the Early Chalcolithic population in the Samara-Volga region. The article gives a detailed description of the material from female burial 31. Based on the analysis of the location of the finds in the burial, a reconstruction of the female costume is offered. The proposed reconstruction is not a representation of everyday, but rarely worn festive (funerary) clothing. The atypical for the site richness of decorative elements, i. e. costume adornments originating from the complex of burial 31, testifies to the special social status of this particular young woman. The very type of the reconstructed clothing, taking into account the use of more modest jewellery or decorative elements made of organic materials in everyday life, could be worn also by other women in that group of the Early Neolithic population of the Volga region, which left the Ekaterinovsky Cape ground cemetery.

Keywords: Samara Volga region, Ekaterinovsky Cape burial ground, early Chalcolithic period, grave goods, costume reconstruction

Information about author:

Dmitriy Stashenkov (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara Museum for History and Regional Studies named after P. V. Alabin. Leninskaya St., 142, Samara, 443041, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6522-6188